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13.08.2005
BNP founder Tyndall dies aged 71
 Mr Tyndall was a veteran of the far-right scene |
A veteran of the right-wing fringe of British politics, Mr Tyndall chaired the National Front, leaving in 1980.
He was due to appear in court this Thursday in Leeds alongside BNP leader Nick Griffin on race hate charges.
Sussex Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding Mr Tyndall's death which was reported at 0815 BST on Tuesday 19 July, 2005.
A spokesman for the BNP said Mr Tyndall had been expelled from the BNP twice but added he was an "excellent chap with a keen analytical mind".
"John was a great fellow who knew exactly what our movement was about but it is fair to say that he was not able to carry that forward to electoral success," the spokesman said. Mr Tyndall founded the BNP in 1982 and was replaced by Mr Griffin in 1999.
NEWS BULLETIN
Veteran British racial nationalist John Tyndall died this date at age 71. He was editor of the the hard-hitting magazine Spearhead.
Tyndall had a long record of involvement with White racial causes spanning five decades.
In 1962 he participated in the National Socialist gathering in the Cotswolds and was instrumental in establishing the World Union of National Socialists (WUNS), along with George Lincoln Rockwell, Colin Jordan, Savitri Devi, and representatives from various European and other countries.
Together with Colin Jordan, Tyndall eluded police in "smuggling" Rockwell into the United Kingdom, after the British home secretary had vowed that the American National Socialist leader would not be allowed to enter the country under any circumstance. Rockwell's subsequent appearance in Britain led to a large-scale manhunt, causing major embarrassment for the government.
Together with Jordan, Tyndall went on to set up the National Socialist Movement in Britain. He later opted for less overt approaches to the racial cause, including that of the British National Party, which he founded. He was subsequently expelled from the organization for being "too extreme" in a coup by Nick Griffin, the present chairman.
One of Tyndall's last columns contained a critical review of the new title The Uprising* by his former associate, Colin Jordan, the fictional account of a White revolt against the takeover of their country by traitors and racial aliens.
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13.04.2005
Rodina Protests as Latvia's Veterans Rally
 A Latvian home guard veteran taking part in a march in Riga on Wednesday |
Nearly 100 Waffen SS veterans and their wives, flanked by a heavy police presence that included horse-mounted police and canine units, made their annual procession through the streets of Riga's old city to lay flowers at the Freedom Monument, a rite that is criticized in the country and abroad annually.
Many of the veterans are in their 80s, and their numbers have steadily decreased each year, but the resentment lingers. Tamara, a 65-year-old Riga woman, said she was wearing a yellow star of David because the Legionnaires and their supporters were fascists, a charge commonly made by Moscow. "They killed Jewish people as well as many others. Virtually every family lost one or two people in the war, primarily to the fascists," she said.
Soviet forces occupied the Baltic states in June 1940 but were driven out by the Germans a year later. The Red Army retook the Baltics in 1944 and reincorporated them into the Soviet Union. About 250,000 Latvians ended up fighting alongside either the Germans or the Soviets -- and some 150,000 Latvians died in the fighting.
A second procession led by the Latvian nationalist group Klubs 415 drew the ire of supporters of the Russian nationalist Rodina party. The procession of about 200 people was met by nearly 100 angry Rodina supporters, many of whom were sporting yellow stars of David on their coats or black-and-white-striped prison uniforms.
Police expected the confrontation and had more than 100 officers on duty, including some with dogs or on horseback. Twenty people were detained.
The two groups shouted nationalist sentiments and sang patriotic songs at each other over a thick wall of police officers. Aigars Dabolins, 40, an ethnic Latvian who took part in the Klubs 415 procession, said he did so to honor his grandfather, who fought in the Waffen SS unit and was later sent to the gulag by the Soviet government. "I'm a patriot," he said. "Russians are not all the same, just as Latvians aren't. These are just Bolsheviks looking for a confrontation."
27.03.2005
Sharapova Rallies to Beat Molik
 Maria Sharapova holding the trophy after beating Alicia Molik in the WTA Qatar Open |
"I was always positive, even after losing the first set," the Russian smiled after collecting her winner's check of $94,000. "I had a good game."
However, the world No. 4 and second seed found the going tough in the first set. Fourth seed Molik, brimming with confidence after her semifinal win over top seed Amelie Mauresmo on Friday, played aggressive tennis and knocked the wind out of Sharapova in the first set.
The Australian world No. 9 broke Sharapova in the third game and held her serve in the next to take a 3-1 lead.
Showing scant respect for the rising Russian, Molik fired four aces in all to win the first set 6-4 in 36 minutes.
Molik, who had beaten Sharapova in the Zurich final last year, looked to be heading for a repeat of that win but Sharapova rebounded, breaking Molik in the second and fourth games to clinch the second set 6-1.
The Russian teenager raised her game a notch and took a vice-like grip. As Sharapova grew in stature, Molik's game fell apart and her challenge fizzled out.
Sharapova broke Molik in the fifth game of the third set and held her nerve for victory. "In the second set I thought I needed to add some pace to my shots. I also knew I had to keep my serve if I have to win the match. But the key to success is my positive attitude. I approach all tournaments with a positive frame of mind," the Russian said.
"I hit the ball better in the second and third sets. And things turned in my favor. But I should say that whenever we have played, we played it tough. Alicia plays great points and to beat her I have to be at my best."
18.02.2005
Sharapova Says No. 1 Can Wait
 Sharapova bowing as she is introduced to a news conference in Tokyo on Monday. |
"Being No. 1 is not for this year, I don't think," Sharapova said in an interview Tuesday. "For this year, I would love to defend Wimbledon. It's what drives me."
"My main goal is to be No. 1 in the world of course," added the Russian, who is playing at this week's Pan Pacific Open tournament in Tokyo.
"But if it's not tomorrow, or not in a year then, you know, if it will happen it will happen - if not, whatever."
Sharapova was less ambivalent when asked about her fierce rivalry with Serena Williams, whom she beat in last year's Wimbledon final and at the season-ending WTA Tour Championships.
But the world No. 4 squandered match point in a 2-6, 7-5, 8-6 loss to Williams in last week's Australian Open semifinals, leaving them tied at two apiece in their head-to-head record.
"With Serena, it probably is the biggest rivalry [in women's tennis] because we have such great matches," said the 17-year-old. "It's great for the game. It's amazing."
Williams rose from seventh to second in the rankings after beating Lindsay Davenport in the Australian Open final to win her seventh Grand Slam title.
"It was good experience," Siberian-born Sharapova said of the match against Williams. "Obviously, it was disappointing to lose when you're a point away from winning the match. But you know, I have no regrets."
Sharapova has received a frenzied welcome in Japan, with reporters tripping over themselves to get near her, forcing the teenager to seek sanctuary in a Tokyo temple earlier this week.
But the Florida-based player, a part-time model who, like Williams, also has ambitions as a fashion designer, has made it clear she is in Japan on business.
"It's exciting," Sharapova said.
"But whoever's across the net, I want to beat them - no matter how small or big, or difficult or easy they are."
10.02.2005
Putin Expresses His Shame for Russia
 President Putin placing a candle on a memorial during a ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on Thursday. |
Putin also signaled that Moscow would not revise its view that the Soviet Union was solely a victim of World War II - refusing to accept arguments that it, too, held some responsibility for the conflict, due to the signing of a secret Soviet-Nazi pact that divided up Eastern Europe.
"Even in our country, in Russia, which did more than any to combat fascism, for the victory over fascism, which did most to save the Jewish people, even in our country we sometimes unfortunately see manifestations of this problem and I, too, am ashamed of that," Putin said at a forum near Krakow, to long applause.
Russian Jews earlier had expressed hope that Putin would use the occasion to address the issue of anti-Semitism. Earlier this month, 19 Communist and Rodina deputies from the State Duma called for an investigation aimed at outlawing all Jewish organizations and punishing officials who support them, accusing Jews of fomenting ethnic hatred and saying they provoke anti-Semitism.
The Foreign Ministry and the prosecutor general have condemned the letter, but the Kremlin had yet to react. Isaak Sloutzker, a 77-year-old Russian Jew who traveled to Poland from Novgorod to attend the commemorations, said: "I'd like to hear a condemnation of xenophobia by the Russian president."
Putin joined other world leaders and other dignitaries later Thursday at the commemoration of the liberation of the death camp in Brzezinka, part of the Auschwitz complex where some 1.5 million people, most of them Jews from across Europe, perished.
The camp was liberated by Soviet troops, and Putin paid tribute to the 600,000 Soviet soldiers who died fighting Nazi troops in Poland.
Putin used his speech at the ceremony to respond to calls by leaders in the Baltic states for Moscow to renounce the secret addendum to the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which Nazi and Soviet leaders concluded in 1939 to divide up much of Eastern Europe, including Poland, in case war broke out.
Shortly after German troops entered Poland in September 1939, Soviet troops occupied the country's east. Soviet forces then occupied the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in June 1940 but were driven out by the Germans a year later. The Red Army retook the Baltics in 1944, and reincorporated them into the Soviet Union. The Baltic states gained independence only after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
If Russia were to renounce the secret pact, it would tacitly be acknowledging some responsibility for World War II - a stance seen as sacrilege in a country that lost some 27 million people during the conflict.
"Standing on this tormented soil, we should firmly and unequivocally say that any attempts to rewrite history and put victims and their killers, liberators and occupiers on an equal footing are immoral and unacceptable for those people who consider themselves Europeans," Putin said, referring to the Baltic states' recent entry into the European Union.
The ceremony began with the recorded rumble of a train at the place where new arrivals stumbled out of cattle cars and were met by Nazi doctors who chose a few to be worked to death, and had the rest sent immediately to the gas chambers. Those not gassed died of starvation, exhaustion, beatings by guards and disease.
At nightfall, the ceremony ended with a recorded train whistle sounding over loudspeakers. Fire was lit atop the rails, creating two burning lines in the darkness. The leaders, including presidents Putin, Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland and France's Jacques Chirac, filed out placing candles, shielded in blue lanterns against the freezing wind, on a low stone memorial.
At the forum earlier, participants applauded several surviving Soviet liberators and saw a video message from Major Anatoly Shapiro, who commanded the Soviet unit that captured Auschwitz.
"I would like to say to all the people on the earth: Unite, and do not permit this evil that was committed," said Shapiro, 92, who lives in New York and was too ill to travel. "This should never be repeated, ever."Kwasniewski awarded medals to three Red Army veterans who helped liberate Auschwitz, Yakov Vinnichenko, Genri Koptev-Gomolov and Nikolai Chertkov.
New Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, greeted with a standing ovation when he entered the hall, said he brought his children to the occasion and spoke of his father, a wounded Soviet prisoner of war who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz. "This is a sacred place for me and my family. This is a place where Andrei Yushchenko, my father, suffered," he said. "There will never be a Jewish question in my country, I vow that."
In Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov echoed Putin's remarks that ethnic and religious hatred must be combated. "We must do everything to eradicate anti-Semitism, xenophobia of all kinds, racial discrimination and chauvinism," Lavrov said.
The Communist Party, however, stopped short of criticizing its deputies who signed the letter to ban Jewish organizations, saying it was a personal decision and did not reflect the party line.
Ivan Melnikov, deputy head of the party's central committee, said Communist deputies are "sufficiently" loyal to the party "but are not, after all, a United Russia and able to have all our deputies' positions coincide on all issues."
The letter's 19 signatories included senior Communist members Vladimir Kashin, a deputy head of the party's central committee, and General Albert Makashov, a reputed anti-Semite. Rodina leader Dmitry Rogozin said the faction's leadership will consider what measures, if any, to take against its deputies on Friday.
